Why Chasing Perfection Can Break Your Product
At a recent kickoff meeting, a client said something that most vendors do not expect to hear. He did not want “top-tier quality”. What he wanted was stability. Predictability. No situations where development stops and…
Why Generalists Win in Software Development
Some ideas only make sense after you have lived through them. When we founded Software Planet Group back in 2000, we made a decision that, at the time, looked almost naive. We chose not to…
Why LLMs Haven’t Reduced the Cost
The rapid rise of large language models has led many business leaders to assume that software development should now be dramatically cheaper. The reasoning appears straightforward. If artificial intelligence can generate code, then a large…
How a Client Should Structure Requirements
In any software development project there comes a decisive moment when the client transfers their vision of the future product to the development team. This is not merely the start of delivery. It is the…
Why Software Development Companies Rarely Work for Equity
At the earliest stages of a startup, founders face a familiar and uncomfortable reality: there is no revenue, the product still needs to be built, and every month burns cash. Development is one of the…
Why Software Development Companies Decline Projects
In the software development market, it is often assumed that the biggest challenge is finding clients. In reality, clients face a mirror problem: finding a development partner who will not only agree to take the…
How the Right Questions Define the Right Software
At Software Planet Group, we’ve learnt that in the world of bespoke software development, the most decisive moment doesn’t occur when the first line of code is written — it happens much earlier, when the…
A true Passion to build Software Products
Software Planet Group is a UK software development company and long-term product partner for people who want to build something that actually works in the real world. When we look back at the history, it…